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Shove it. This isn't a place for two people to continue to make personal attack at each other after personal attack. Put each other on ignore lists because your treatment of each other won't be tolerated on this site.

Bazuin is easily Angelo's worse pick since becoming GM. He took a reach of a DE in the 2nd round when the team already had Anderson, Ogunleye, & Brown and had severe needs all across the offense.

I've long said that this team has a chance to be absolutely horrendous. If the defense remembers how to play, maybe the team lucks out and goes 7-9 or 8-8. But if it just repeats what it did last year, we are talking about a 2-4 win team.

The problem lies with the players and staff. They all think they are freakin great and rely on that so called greatness. I got news for you, great defenses dont' finish 28th in the league in the past year (injuries or not). And yes I realize injuries were a big problem but all I ever hear out of the players and coaches mouths are excuses for why they didn't do this and that...how about they go freakin out there and realize they haven't played right and actually fix things (instead of the stupid, oh were rusty bullshit).

Again, I still think when it comes to QB's a lot of there success rides upon the system they enter. In fact, I'd probably go as far as saying that 65% of there success is based upon them and about 35% depends on the situation they enter (it could even be higher than 35%). By situation, I mean offensive system, offensive weapons, coaching staff, etc.

Nice to note the franchise has enough money to trade for Boldin and give him some money.

No way do you trade Jones. The whole point in bringing him in was to have a veteran who can share the workload with Forte. Rookie rb's hit a wall and the best way to handle them is to have someone else split carries with them so you can get positive production from that rookie RB throughout the season (ideally in a method that the Colts used in Addai's rookie season).

Moose raved about Rex for two years and than as soon as he got cut after having a piss poor year the story changed. The guy was just downright selfish.

Dusty was once again a beast. He moves interior lineman like a madman. I really hope he stays healthy because he's got one hell of a motor. Needs to stay in his gaps better, but damn he's got a motor.

I'm starting to think that Kyle does a better job calling pass protection than Rex. I don't know how involved a QB is in pass protection but I'm certain there is some involvement. The only possible contradiction to that is Rex never got much pressure during the Super Bowl season (because last year and this preseason the line has been far better for Kyle than Rex).

Did you have the national feed or some other feed? I'm a big Aikman fan and he was raving about Rex the teammate. I don't think he'd be saying that nor do I think we'd have had so many Bears player stick up for Rex over the past few years (despite the few comments from people like Tank Johnson and Ron Rivera) if they didn't genuinely like the guy.

I think Bennet is the teams 4th stringer and when Hester is tired will be the slot WR. The Bears are very high on him and he's already a better route runner than Bradley and much quicker/athletic than Booker.

I don't know who ends up getting released, but usually someone interesting becomes available.

Whoopty doo...he made a big catch on a play where the CB made a mistake. The route was terribly run (which is Bradley's biggest problem). I'm not trying to discredit him because I once hyped Bradley as much as anyone on here, but I'm impressed by good routes and good catches and Bradley did neither tonight, imo. Although Bradley almost had a 2nd big catch where Rex would have had a TD as would Bradley (that ball was perfectly thrown...except for Bradley getting PI'd with). So again, I'm probably harsh on Bradley but Booker, its been 3 games and he's been completely non-existent. There is a reason for that. We have QB's who are trying to win a starting job (or did) and if Booker was open they'd have been leaning on the vet WR a lot (but they didn't and that was a telling sign, imo).

Rex was the first one to high five Orton when he left the field. Hell, Aikman was raving about how Rex and Kyle have handled the whole situation and talked about how while they aren't friends they are professionals and have been trying to help each other out. Rex isn't the guy and I'm sure he's dissapointed about it but he's behind Kyle just like the rest of the Bears are. I also don't expect Rex to get cut and I'm glad we have him as a backup as he's familiar with the system and if Kyle went down I'd think we'd still have a shot at winning.

We also can't ignore the fact that its all started since Babich showed up.

Orton looked fantastic and made me kind of excited to see his development this season. That said I'm still concerned about the lack of a WR corps but Rashied certainly looks improved although he should have had 3 TD passes.

28th ranked defense in the NFL last year. Injuries be damned, people can't ignore the fact that it hasn't just been the pre-season where this D has played like piss. Its been an on-going trend for a while.

I know people will tell me Marty is a veteran but he's looked absolutely horrendous in the field. I haven't seen him get open much at all and when you just watch him moving over the field he looks absolutely sluggish. I can't stand Bradley either because I think he's lost the athletism that once made him a potential impact player. I'd prefer releasing both of them and picking up a veteran that gets released elsewhere (it will happen) or keeping Hass.

I'll go more in depth on my game thoughts tomorrow, but damn did Orton look fantastic. Good juice on his throws, tremendous pocket presence, and great decision making. Hell of a game Kyle!!!

I've seen absolutely nothing out of Marty Booker, so I'd be perfectly content releasing Booker and opting for Horn (who has been a better receiver than Booker over the course of his career, imo).

It sucks for Kyle though. He's going to have to work with this oline and lack of a receiving core. I've said it for the past couple years but its pretty hard to truly evaluate the Bears offense given the lack of talent the QB's have had to work with (even in the SuperBowl year, that wasn't what I'd call a talented offense). Berrian emerged, Jones was a solid back, and Rex really did do one hell of a job (but it wasn't as if we had a studly WR corps or a game-breaking RB).

The Bears made it seem like the QB's started on an even slate. I personally don't have a problem with ORton being a slight favorite (given he hasn't had the opportunity that Rex has) but the Bears didn't tell Rex that was the case. There is absolutely no way anyone can convince me that Kyle earned the starting job. Kyle looked like shit on Saturday. He was high with all bunch of his throws and twice threw balls that could have easily been picked and taken back for 6. He was bailed out by some nice plays by his receivers and the fact that he actually had time. Rex looked much better on Saturday than Kyle. However, Rex didn't look good as it would have been impossible for him to do such. Bottom line no one is going to tell me that Kyle outplayed Rex. I also think both QB's got screwed by the fact that each of them should have gotten full halves to work with (it was pretty tough for either of them to truly work themselves into a rhythm). One week one player gets a full half in the first with the other player getting the opposite. Than in the 3rd game if neither have proven themselves, give each of them the same task (and give the one whose up in the competition another go against the 1st stringers). Lovie has dissapointed me a lot with the way he's handled certain issues going back to last season (a season where I felt the Bears played as if they had alreayd won the game pretty much every weak and that attitude bit them in the ass). To an extent that attitude is still there as I constantly hear the defensive players talking about how they'll show up and start bringing it week 1. That cocky bullshit attitude has to go considering the defense sucked last season. I'll say this, Kyle would have a disaster of a Saturday had he been in the same spot as Rex (just as Rex did when he was getting hammered). So would Tom Brady and practically any other QB.

Its pure bullpucky. Wish it were true, but its crap.

Lovie never tells you the darn truth with injuries. How many minor injuries or this guy will play this week have the Bears had with the go only to have a major surgery or not play (despite being listed as probable) for weeks at a time.